Sport
- Athletics - Lynn Davies becomes the first person to hold the European, Commonwealth and Olympic long jump titles simultaneously.
- Football - Ivor Allchurch plays his final game for Wales, against Chile.
- Rugby union
- Phil Bennett makes his first appearance for Llanelli RFC.
- Wales win the Five Nations Championship for the third successive year.
- Tennis - Future rugby star J.P.R. Williams wins the junior championship at Wimbledon.
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Lynn Davies
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“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
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